The Truth About the Drug Companies, by Marcia Angell, MD (Macmillan, $30): The current state of the drug industry in the United States is being viewed as the potential future for those of us in Australasia. In the US, the public…
Month: March 2007
Dyer offers a fresh outlook
Future Tense The Coming World Order, by Gwynne Dyer (Scribe, $32): Freelance journalist-columnist Gwynne Dyer has a knack of taking complex, controversial stories and offering a fresh view. From the Middle East to Afghanistan, Dyer has a depth of understanding…
Fictional travel guide as good as a holiday
San Sombrero, by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch (Hardie Grant Books, $34.99): This cracking little guide to the fictional Central American country of San Sombrero is the latest offering in the Jetlag Travel Guide series. Described as the birthplace…
Want answers? This bloke has them
Little Red Book of Sales Answers, by Jeffrey Gitomer (Penguin, $24.95): This is the companion book to the Little Red Book of Selling and claims to contain 99.5 real-world answers that make sense, make sales and make money. I haven’t actually taken the…